ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,325, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Innoplexus AG (Eschborn, Germany).

"Method and system for converting a protein data bank file into a grayscale image array" was invented by Sudhanshu Kumar (Bokaro, India), Joel Joseph (Palayi, India) and Ansh Gupta (Menhdawal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for converting protein data bank (PDB) files into a grayscale image array is provided. The method includes extracting PDB files from a PDB, using a data extraction module. The method also includes converting, using a file conversion module, the PDB files into a data frame based on BioPandas. The method further incl...